Comedians in ping-pong ding-dong
Stars in live table tennis contest
25/10/2021 … Forget Monkey Tennis, Alan Partridge’s desperate TV show pitch, how about Comedian Table Tennis? Comics including former Taskmaster contestants Tim…
Mon 25 October 2021
Fri 22 October 2021
© Solen Feyissa/Pexels Never meet your heroes...
22/10/2021 … Tweets of the week Damn, I must have left my set list in Tesco.
© BBC Sir Ian McKellen: I watch my episode of Extras to cheer myself up
'One of the best scripts I have ever had to learn'
22/10/2021 … Sir Ian McKellen says that whenever he needs cheering up, he watches himself in Extras.
Tue 19 October 2021
© Matt Crockett Joe Lycett: I'm hounded by a ghost dog
Comic reckons spirit makes mutts pee in his doorway
19/10/2021 … Joe Lycett reckons his house his haunted by a ghost dog.
Fri 15 October 2021
Rob Beckett: My worst corporate gig
...and how he never met middle-class people until he went to the Edinburgh Fringe
15/10/2021 … Rob Beckett says he hadn’t met any middle-class people until he went to the Edinburgh Fringe.
How to check if your spaghetti is cooked...
15/10/2021 … Tweets of the week forgot the word for toothpaste and called it bone shampoo — Village of the Adamned (@Browtweaten) October 8, 2021 Squid Game…
© Jaimie Gramston 'This is an accent, not a speech impediment!’
Billy Connolly's frustration at his dictation software
15/10/2021 … Billy Connolly has told of his troubles writing his new autobiography – because the dictation software he uses cannot understand his Glaswegian accent, The…
Thu 14 October 2021
© BBC The one line Malcolm Tucker wasn't allowed to say...
As Armando Iannucci once recalled
14/10/2021 … A timely story from The Thick Of It comes courtesy of the Popbitch newsletter tonight.